Quick Wins in the Computing Classroom

It's good to have long-term plans -- essential, in fact -- but what about the period before those plans come to fruition?

The economist John Maynard Keynes famously said:

"In the long run we're all dead."

The question is, what can you do right now, or tomorrow, to improve your students' experience of Computing?

I like to think in terms of quick wins, things that are fairly easy to implement but which have a disproportionate impact. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, here are some of the quick wins I've implemented in various roles, and the effect they had: